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Okay, it is wikipedia, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor "Adherents claim that with seawater ur
by flubert 11y ago
Okay, it is wikipedia, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
"Adherents claim that with seawater uranium extraction, there would be enough fuel for breeder reactors to satisfy our energy needs for 5 billion years at 1983's total energy consumption rate, thus making nuclear energy effectively a renewable energy."
- civilian 11y agoYeah, breeder reactors are even mentioned in the sciam article that nostromo posted. He's cherry-picking his info.
- DasIch 11y agoThere are only four breeder reactors in operation, we'd need a lot more rather quickly for them to be useful. Also as with all things nuclear there are an awful lot of claims and not a lot of known things here. Nuclear somehow always looks much better in theory than it does in practice.